Shout Out!

To Sonnie Trotter for the link love!

Unfortunate Photo

Sporno: 20 Pictures In Which Sport and Porn Collide

I'm going to hell.

This story cracked me up due to what my brain conjured up of playing against a team where they all have ADD.

School apologizes after 100-0 basketball victory

'DALLAS - A Texas school whose girls basketball team beat another team, 100-0, has apologized, calling its win "shameful" and "a victory without honor."

The Covenant School of Dallas also has asked to forfeit the Jan. 13 game against Dallas Academy.

A parent who attended the game praised the Covenant players, but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.

"I do think they ran up the score," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots."

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and is winless over the last four seasons. The academy specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences" such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

There is no mercy rule in girls' basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

In a statement on its Web site, the board chair and head of The Covenant School said it formally apologized to the other school after the story first appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Thursday morning.

"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," the statement said. "We humbly apologize."

In asking to forfeit the game, the elite north Dallas Christian school also said, "A victory without honor is a great loss."

Jim Richardson, headmaster at the Dallas Academy, said he accepts the apology and that the two schools remain friends.

At a shoot around Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity.

"We don't play to win, we play to have fun," said Lauren Click, a junior on the team. "I was pretty relieved the game was over."

Team members also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite.

"Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK.

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Bad Day

Vail Chairlift Accident Leaves Man Dangling Pantless

Link slightly NSFW

Joel Says It All

Iconoclasts

Poor Guy

It's hysterical though.

Thanks to Digital Fortress!

'I' In Team

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Team dumps logo near buttocks after 70-0 loss

Bad Day

Face-Plant

Whoa.

Today In - 'Useless Info'

'In 490 BCE, Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, ran from Marathon to Athens (about 25 miles) to inform the Athenians the outcome of the battle with invading Persians.

The distance was filled with hills and other obstacles; thus Pheidippides arrived in Athens exhausted and with bleeding feet.

After telling the townspeople of the Greeks' success in the battle, Pheidippides fell to the ground dead.

In 1896, at the first modern Olympic Games, held a race of approximately the same length in commemoration of Pheidippides.

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The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee.

Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter.

Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold.'

New Olympic Competition For The Chinese Games

Refugee High Jump

Check out the rest at Scootersville.

AWK-WARD!

Hubba Hubba

Sergio Garcia

What's disconcerting is how I even know who he is.

My dirty little secret, is that I have caught myself watching increasing amounts of The Golf Channel.

Ack!

Last weekend I was actually following the Memorial Tournament [!].

Used to be that the expression, 'you have the body of a professional golfer', was a bad thing.

But now, there's a lot of young hotties on the green.

Like Sergio's fellow Spaniard, Ignacio Elvira:



Hubbs.

Out And About

Because you know how they say us Denverites/Coloradoans are all active and healthy and stuff.

A view looking south from Commons Park in the Riverfront neighborhood.

From Denver Infill.

Got Crabs?

Hmm. Umm....

'Good thing we brought a second javelin...'

Photographer speared by javelin at meet

'Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury Saturday, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others tended to him.

"If I didn't, it would probably be my editor's first question when I got back," McGeeney said.

The 33-year-old McGeeney, an ex-Marine who spent six months in Afghanistan, was taking pictures of the discus event and apparently wandered into off-limits area set aside for the javelin.

Striking just below the knee, the javelin tip went through the skin and emerged on the other side of his leg.

"It wasn't real painful. ... I was very lucky in that it didn't hit any blood vessels, nerves, ligaments or tendons," McGeeney said.

Much of the javelin was cut off at the scene. The piece in McGeeney's leg was removed at a hospital, and he received 13 stitches.

The javelin was thrown by Anthony Miles, a Provo High School student who said his "heart just stopped" when he saw what happened.

"One of the first things that came to my mind was, 'Good thing we brought a second javelin,"' Miles' coach, Richard Vance, said Monday. He said Miles was "in a little bit of shock," but he assured the athlete it was not his fault.

With a subsequent throw, Miles went on to win the state title in javelin for teams in Provo High's size classification, 4-A.'

Drunken Purchases

Colleen has a post that mentions purchasing while under the influence, and I had to stop and think If I had made any drunken purchases.

One that came to mind is a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap that has 'Cardinals' written in Hebrew.

I was in St. Louis for a wedding, and the reception ended early, so a bunch of us ended up going out for drinks at Union Station [where we were also staying].

On the way back to the room, there was a tourist shop, and I saw the Hebrew cap and had to have it.

It cracked me up because I have never seen any sports memorabilia written in Hebrew.

We all had a good laugh at it at the time.

Occasionally I will still wear it out and it's amazing the reactions I get.

Either people are freaked out because they think it's that 'crazy Middle Eastern writin'', or I get Jews coming up to me speaking Hebrew.

And believe you me, I look far from Jewish.

I actually confused this one Israeli guy because I was wearing the cap, but he could also speak/read Arabic and noticed the tat on my right forearm.

Does St. Louis have a large Jewish community?

I still haven't figured out why it's in Hebrew.